“It is neither painful, nor dangerous, nor contagious, nor serious”.
To discuss his illness, Édouard Philippe immediately reassured his voters.
Thursday on BFMTV, the ex-Prime Minister, almost without eyebrows and a permanently white beard, returned at length to his alopecia, this autoimmune disease which affects the hair system.
Symptoms impossible to camouflage.
“Here's what happens: I lost my eyebrows, and I don't think they'll come back.
My beard has turned white, it's falling out a bit, the hair too.
The mustache is gone, I don't know if it will come back, but it would surprise me, ”described the mayor of Le Havre.
However, Édouard Philippe considers himself lucky: “It is useful to say that alopecia is something that can start very young or very old.
I suffer from it at 52 years old.
(…) A teenager, a teenager struck with alopecia at the age of 15, that's a whole different story.
Me, I'm lucky.
“The former tenant of Matignon under the first term of Emmanuel Macron also wanted to address the other patients, for whom” the main thing is not how we look at them, it's what 'they are ".
"It's a hair story, after all"
The question of the physical appearance of the president of the Horizons party may also raise questions for his political future.
“There are a lot of people in good faith who look at me, who see this, who are asking questions.
(…) I think the French can be curious about what is happening, questioning, but I don't intend to spend my time talking about that either.
(…) You will always find people who are a little miserable to explain that behind that, there must be something a little more serious.
That's life, "reacted simply Édouard Philippe.
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To partly explain the triggering of the ex-Prime Minister's alopecia, the majority of doctors evoke stress.
“Perhaps,” replies Édouard Philippe.
I confirm that I have a stressful life.
Of course you are stressed when you have responsibilities.
"And the mayor of Le Havre to put it into perspective: "It's a story of hair, after all.
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